UI/UX & Graphic Design Intern

About Koppla

Koppla Marketing is a digital marketing agency built exclusively for mental health professionals: therapists, psychologists, counselors, and private practices. We do one thing: help clinicians get found by the right clients online. That means SEO for therapists, content strategy for behavioral health providers, and local search visibility for practices that are tired of competing on Psychology Today alone. Through KopplaHQ, we build the software that powers that work at scale.

Design is at the core of that work. Every website we build, campaign we run, and product feature we ship is designed for a specific audience: people looking for mental health support, often during a hard week. If you want your design work to help someone at a difficult moment, this internship is a good fit.

The Role

We need a UI/UX & Graphic Design Intern for Winter 2027 to handle visual design across client campaigns, the KopplaHQ platform, and the Koppla brand. You'll work directly with our marketing and content teams to build and ship production-ready assets.

Design for healthcare is changing. Federal rules now point many healthcare organizations to a specific accessibility standard, AI search answers more health questions before anyone clicks through to a website, and HIPAA limits how practices collect and track visitor data. You'll learn to design with all three in mind.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design social media graphics, email templates, landing pages, and ad creatives for mental health practices
• Create wireframes, mockups, and user flow diagrams for KopplaHQ, our content platform for therapists
• Design contact, intake, and booking forms that ask only for what a practice needs and explain plainly how that information is handled
• Check designs for accessibility, including color contrast, focus states, text size, and screen reader labels
• Maintain and extend Koppla's visual brand identity across all channels
• Create presentation decks, reports, and one-pagers for internal and client use
• Work with the content and marketing teams to keep campaigns visually consistent
• Study how other practices and health brands present themselves online, and bring useful patterns back to client work
• Make basic website updates and build visual components with tools like Webflow, Squarespace, or Wix
• Organize and maintain a shared digital asset library

What You'll Learn

The assets you design go into live client campaigns, and your wireframes will shape the KopplaHQ interface. By the end of this internship, you'll have a portfolio of shipped work and specific experience designing for mental health care.

• Why therapist website design needs its own approach: how color, typography, and layout signal safety, professionalism, and warmth to a person looking for help
• How trauma-informed design principles, such as safety, choice, and predictability, apply to intake forms, contact pages, and anything a person might see in a difficult moment
• How to design pages that convert website visitors into therapy clients when AI search answers the basic questions first, and the people who do click through need to see quickly who the clinician is, what they treat, and how to book
• How to build an accessible website for therapists that meets WCAG 2.1 AA, the standard federal accessibility rules now apply to many healthcare organizations, while keeping it fast and easy to use on a phone
• How color science in therapist website design works, including how to build palettes that feel calm and still pass contrast checks
• How to hand off Figma designs to developers for themes like Aurora, including how colors, type, and spacing become design tokens in code, so the live site matches the mockup

What We're Looking For

Required:

• Currently enrolled in or recently graduated from a program in Graphic Design, UI/UX Design, Visual Communication, or a related field
• Proficiency in Figma, Affinity, and/or Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign)
• Strong visual portfolio showcasing design work (digital, branding, or UI projects)
• Attention to detail with a clean, user-friendly design aesthetic
• Ability to take direction and incorporate feedback constructively
• Self-motivated with the ability to manage time independently in a remote environment

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Familiarity with email design platforms (Klaviyo, Mailchimp, or similar)
• Experience designing for wellness, healthcare, or purpose-driven brands
• Basic knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) in digital design
• Some exposure to HTML and CSS, or to how designs are built in code
• Experience with tools like Canva, Webflow, Squarespace, or Wix

What We Offer

• Fully remote, open to students anywhere in the U.S., with a flexible schedule built around your academic calendar
• Academic credit coordination available upon request
• Mentorship from an experienced marketing team
• Experience with the full process, from campaign strategy to finished visuals
• A collaborative team that takes your work and your career growth seriously

Compensation

$300 Stipend per Term / Academic Credit Eligible

How to Apply

We'd love to see your work! Please submit the following:

1. Your resume
2. A link to your portfolio (Behance, Dribbble, personal site, or a hosted PDF)
3. A brief cover letter (3–5 sentences) telling us why you're drawn to design for the mental health space

Paste your resume and portfolio links into the form below. Write your cover letter under "Why are you interested in this role?" Check that both links open without an access request.